Flight of the Navigator Trimaxion Drone Ship
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MeshModel3D
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Here's one rendition of the trimaxion drone ship. It still needs some shell tweaking so it matches the original model. I still think it looks unique.
Trimaxion Drone Ship (Flight of the Navigator)
Medium poly mesh with detailed topography. Here is a model of the Trimaxion Drone Ship from the Flight of the Navigator with its shell-like appearance! Halves of the Trimaxion Drone Ship are included as well as the full model. Ready to 3D print! Hope you enjoy! (Future updates to come!)
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I loved this thread. December 2021 I started to read this thread because I was trying to find a 3d model of the ship. I ended up just watching the movie a lot, taking screenshots and redid the ship completely. I needed to redo the ship as I was doing it Playmobil size or 1:24 size and I ended up also doing the interior. The interior have removable wall panels for the alien section, and have a flat and outside, chair, engines and control arms. I also have Max that is able to move on a rail system. The door is removable and stairs can also be added. I will have a bigger post when I have time and will be sharing all of the 3d models.
That's amazing. So cleverly done.
I love that you made it for playmobil. Thanks for posting!
Matte Painter
Active Member
Well, I finally got around to photographing my 3d prints I think the damn Molotow chrome is still soft in places and it's been sat there since before Christmas!
Too Much Garlic
Master Member
Cool thread. Always loved this design for a spaceship.
Love the attention to detail put into getting the 3D models correct and I appreciate that you make them available.
Just wanted to alert you that the download link no longer works.
Digritz
New Member
This thread is simply incredible. I'm sure I imagined back in the day how cool it would be to make something like the 3 droid from Silent Running, (to give a hint what back in the day means to me). But I had to settle with taking old models with missing parts and cutting, molding, sanding and gluing together what would look like....... junk. To see a snap shot of a on-line community that starts with an impossible request of the me 50 years ago makes me smile like a kid again.
The second link works, for the speedy version. And that one has a link "by the same seller" that has a working link for the normal version.
Endlessblue
New Member
Hi everyone! This is my first post in this forum, and I’m excited to share something special with you.
The first time I saw Flight of the Navigator, I was just a middle school kid (back in 1994 when it aired on TV in China). That alien drone ship blew my mind—its sleek, streamlined design and shape-shifting ability at high speed were so cool! Ever since then, owning a model of that ship became a long-held dream of mine.
Even after becoming a father and collecting plenty of ACG figures and statues over the years, I never forgot about that dream. I’d occasionally search online for a high-quality model including Ebay, but all I could find were poorly crafted little trinkets—nothing close to what I wanted. Then, one day, I came across this post through Google search.
Matte Painter, your work is a masterpiece! Your 3D model was exactly what I’d been searching for, and it finally made my dream possible! But I didn’t want just a regular material 3D-printed version—those are too light and often come in separate pieces that need glue. I wanted something solid, something real. So I decided to go all out: stainless steel.
Thanks to my country’s powerful manufacturing industry, I found a company that could 3D-print it in stainless steel! In 2021, I had the drone made in its standard shape (Matte Painter’s Version 4), 20cm length . The cost? Around $300 (priced by gram weight, so I don’t remember the exact amount , cost including the fine polishing manually ).
Later, when Matte Painter shared the high-speed mode file, I couldn’t resist—I paid another $350 or so to print it. To keep costs down (since metal printing is weight-based), I kept the length at 25cm instead of scaling it up further.
In 2023 ,I finally hold my childhood dream in my hands. The moment I touched that metal drone ship, I was overjoyed. A huge thanks to everyone in this thread who shared reference data and photos—you made this possible!
The first time I saw Flight of the Navigator, I was just a middle school kid (back in 1994 when it aired on TV in China). That alien drone ship blew my mind—its sleek, streamlined design and shape-shifting ability at high speed were so cool! Ever since then, owning a model of that ship became a long-held dream of mine.
Even after becoming a father and collecting plenty of ACG figures and statues over the years, I never forgot about that dream. I’d occasionally search online for a high-quality model including Ebay, but all I could find were poorly crafted little trinkets—nothing close to what I wanted. Then, one day, I came across this post through Google search.
Matte Painter, your work is a masterpiece! Your 3D model was exactly what I’d been searching for, and it finally made my dream possible! But I didn’t want just a regular material 3D-printed version—those are too light and often come in separate pieces that need glue. I wanted something solid, something real. So I decided to go all out: stainless steel.
Thanks to my country’s powerful manufacturing industry, I found a company that could 3D-print it in stainless steel! In 2021, I had the drone made in its standard shape (Matte Painter’s Version 4), 20cm length . The cost? Around $300 (priced by gram weight, so I don’t remember the exact amount , cost including the fine polishing manually ).
Later, when Matte Painter shared the high-speed mode file, I couldn’t resist—I paid another $350 or so to print it. To keep costs down (since metal printing is weight-based), I kept the length at 25cm instead of scaling it up further.
In 2023 ,I finally hold my childhood dream in my hands. The moment I touched that metal drone ship, I was overjoyed. A huge thanks to everyone in this thread who shared reference data and photos—you made this possible!
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They look AWESOME!! I really like the 3D printing!
I really hope I can 3D print one for myself…
Spiderstella
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Beautiful
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